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Skull Rock
Wilsons Promontory, Australia

Skull Rock (Cleft Island)

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.
Genbikei Gorge
Ichinoseki, Japan

Genbikei Gorge

A stretch of the Iwai River that features beautiful rocky cliffs, rapids, and flying dango.
Garron Point 5.
Carnlough, Northern Ireland

Garron Point Headland

Amazing vistas await visitors to this stretch of coastline.
Agbokim Waterfall
Obokum, Nigeria

Agbokim Waterfall

Seven streams tumble over a cliff, resulting in this dazzling waterfall in the Nigerian rainforest.
islands

Podcast: Monkey Island

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team February 2, 2022
The Great Fourstone
Lancaster, England

The Great Fourstone

A massive glacial deposit that includes a carved staircase to reach the top.
Turkmenistan's fiery pit, the Gates of Hell, may be extinguished after burning for decades.
gates to hell

Will the Gates of Hell Be Closed Forever?

Turkmenistan’s Darvaza gas crater has been on fire for decades. The inferno may finally be extinguished.
Sarah Durn January 19, 2022
A recently-unearthed pot of rye bread sits on the shore of Lake Laugarvatn.
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The Icelandic Bakery That Buries Its Bread in Hot Springs

Laugarvatn Fontana's sweet, cakey rye gets baked by geothermal energy.
Tiffany Eastham January 17, 2022
A dragon figure made out of seashells and coral.
List

Our Favorite New Places of 2021

We added more than 1,500 wondrous places to the Atlas this year. Here are the ones that stuck with us.
Atlas Obscura December 30, 2021
The giant crystals of Naica Cave.
caves

Podcast: The Naica Cave

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team December 14, 2021
Shetland's major industry of fish farming is present near the ayres.
Shetland Islands, Scotland

Ayres of Swinister

The recurring nature of this geographic feature might make it unique in the world.
Seen from the International Space Station, twin volcanoes Sundoro (left) and Sumbing on the Indonesian island of Java.
volcanoes

Are Twin Volcanoes Double the Trouble?

They come in pairs more often than you might think, but generally aren’t twice as dangerous as the solo acts.
Gemma Tarlach December 8, 2021
The quaking aspen known as Pando is one of the planet's largest and oldest living organisms.
forests

Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being Eaten by Deer

Utah's 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones has survived for millennia, but faces threats large and small.
Richard Elton Walton December 6, 2021
Oblique view of the west arch, looking southeast. The edge of the east arch is barely visible at the top of the photo.
Moab, Utah

Gemini Bridges

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
natural wonders

Chasing Oregon’s Watery Wonders

Grab a life jacket and a wetsuit! Jessica Mendoza and her family gear up for an outdoor adventure and explore the wet and wondrous sights of Central Oregon’s majestic wilderness.
nature

Podcast: Red Sea Blue Hole

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team November 18, 2021
roadside attractions

Leonardo Nam's California Drift Through Time

Buckle up and join Leonardo and his family as they set out from Los Angeles to explore the California desert.
The pools below the waterfall.
Ballachulish, Scotland

The Meeting of Three Waters

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."